Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., suggests sending detainees of the terrorist detention facility at soon-to-be-closed Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to the former Alcatraz Island prison facility in San Francisco Bay.
Bond, who is vice chair of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee and member of the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Terrorist Surveillance Program, says his state and nearby Leavenworth prison in Kansas want no part in housing terror suspects.
Bond’s apprehension stems from concerns confirmed Thursday when President Barack Obama signed orders to close the “Gitmo” detention center and shut down secret overseas CIA prisons, review military war crimes trials, and ban the harshest interrogation methods of suspected terrorists.
"The people in San Francisco are the ones making the big noise about it,” Bond told several reporters during a telephone conference Wednesday with KMOX News radio in St. Louis. “And if they want to bring [the detainees] to the United States, I think we ought to put them in Alcatraz and let our good friends in San Francisco deal with these deadly combatants who, in the past, when released from Guantanamo, have gone back on the battlefield to kill Americans.”
Bond's right. Those people who scream the loudest about Gitmo should be the ones to step up and pay the price for their opposition. Stick them on Alcatraz so the folks in San Francisco can see their bright orange jumpsuits from Pier 39.
Of course, it will be a constant problem with protesters trying to swim out to the island, but the currents and cold water should thin the protester ranks very nicely.
And to those people who think captivity in warm, sunny Gitmo is torture, try spending a summer afternoon on Alcatraz. They'll be begging to get back where it's warm.
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